By Jo Ellis Pre-revolutnary Cuba was no paradise for gays and lbians. There were gay bars where homosexual men uld meet, but to be a marine (faggot) was to be a social outst. Laws ma illegal to be gay and police targeted homosexuals
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CUBA WANTS YOU TO THK IT’S A GAY PARADISE. IT’S NOT.
Outsi of the vlatns, historians regard the 1960s as an even more reprsive for one Cuban muny particular: the untry’s homosexual populatn. Even pre-Revolutnary Cuba, the island’s society relegated the homosexual muny to the few LGBT-iendly bars Cuban ci.
Castro and the other leadg revolutnari nsired homosexualy a v product of palism, which had to be rooted out entirely om society.